October 25, 2007

Thursday Morning News Roundup

Asia Times Online: Iran's military parade commemorating Saddam Hussein's invasion of their country was an opportunity to unveil new weaponry, including a new smart bomb and a domestically produced fighter jet, clearly intended to indicate to America that they won't go quietly if attacked. America's generals prepare for 100 years of urban warfare, as "Pentagon war-fighting doctrine, he notes, "is being reshaped accordingly to support a low-intensity world war of unlimited duration against criminalized segments of the urban poor"." Chalmers Johnson reviews a book on the intellectual fallacies of the 'war on terror', as though the fallacies weren't the point, but anyway, it's an interesting article. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates talks about the US' relationship with Russia. In northern Iraq, the Turks and Kurds seem to be getting ready to rumble, and nobody, but nobody thinks the outcome would be pretty.